There have been a number of times over the last couple of years that you might have hear me complaining about Nintendo while streaming. The criticisms I have of them boil down to the following:

They have awful third party support for their consoles because of underpowered hardware and gimmicky controllers

As a result of this, the WiiU’s game library is laughably terrible

Their own games, while good, are few and far between

They do not keep their promises

I bought my WiiU about a year and a half (or so) ago. I haven’t turned it on in at least 6 months. When I did have it on, I more or less just played Mario Kart 8.

The major reason I bought the thing was to play the next Zelda, which we were told was coming out in 2015. At that time I made this comic: http://corpseruncomics.com/corpse-run-485-wii-owe-u/

Well, Zelda didn’t come out that year; it was delayed and we were told 2016 was the new release date.

Well… http://www.wired.com/2016/04/gamelife-podcast-zelda-e3/

Zelda isn’t coming out to 2017 now… and will be a dual release on the WiiU and NX, Nintendo’s next console.

What the hell, Nintendo. First off, you have been raising your middle finger to you fans for years now. Second, you have absolutely no business making a new console when the one you have had out for the last three years has the world’s most anemic game library.

Basically, Nintendo is telling anyone who bought a WiiU that they don’t care about them and that they wasted their money while simultaneously trying to use a game that was supposed to come out in 2015 as the launch title to get folks to buy their next piece of hardware.

Eff that.

I hope Nintendo ends up like Sega, where they get the hell out of the console market and just make games. As it stands now they are an awful company that uses their high quality software to string fans along and buy crap consoles that have no support.

In more positive news, I’m trying to bring back the “Let’s make a comic!” thing on the YouTube, so here we go!

Discussion (8) ¬

I agree completely. I was shocked that nintendo let everyone know just 1 year into the WiiU lifecycle that a replacement console is allready in advanced planning.

Also they have allready annouced the ceasation of production for the WiiU console by the end of this year. Frell you nintendo I only bought the system for Bayonetta and Zelda. 1 new good game does not make a console.

I only really use my WiiU for Xenoblade and Twilight Princess HD. I too really bought mine for the next Zelda title and was super pumped for it coming out this year only to hear that it was moved to the NX release. I’ll give that console a chance and hopefully Nintendo will make better decisions with said console

Man, if you bought a WiiU only for Mario Kart and a potential Zelda then you are the one to blame.
If there’s really nothing else that interests you in there (Splatoon, Xenoblade, Mario Maker, Hyrule Warriors, DKCTP, SM3D World, Pikmin 3, SSB, W101, Bayonetta2 … most of these have been recently discounted BTW) then you should really just stay as far as possible from anything with the Nintendo brand in the future because there is no way you won’t be disappointed.

If Nintendo goes the way of Sega, you will only see Zelda and Mario games and less projects like Splatoon. I wish Nintendo didn’t delay the game but I do hope they put out a playable demo and explain what they are bringing to the new game.

You see… the difference between Nintendo and other consoles is that Nintendo actually tries things. Nintendo is a company all about experimentation. They’re entire goal is to produce consoles that are new, interesting, and can deliver something that other consoles can’t. Did you see how popular the Wii was? Sure, it’s third party support was lacking because of the motion controls, but that was because so many companies have gotten it in their head that controls are designed a specific way. To change that up for Wii… well, that was just “not the way it’s done”. It was weird. That’s exactly what Nintendo wanted, though. They wanted to challenge people, to make them work to develop amazing games using awesome new technology. Let’s not forget that VR was initially started with Nintendo’s VirtualBoy. Yes, the thing was crappy and didn’t sell well, but if the VirtualBoy came out today? I mean, we’d be jumping all over it because it’d be like an Occulus Rift or a VIVE. The fact of the matter is, Nintendo is trying to revolutionize the gaming industry.

I mean, look at freaking Microsoft and their “XBox Kinect”. They built that because the Wii was selling so well. Same with the Playstation Move. Without the Wii, those wouldn’t have come about. And now, Microsoft is still trying to sell the Kinect as the main control unit for the XBone, and Sony is like “ahh, never mind, motion control is too hard to figure out, BACK TO THE SAME CONTROLLER WE’VE HAD FOR 3 CONSOLES NOW!” Neither of them offer innovation. Neither of them bring anything new to the playing field.

The reason why the Wii U was bad and didn’t sell well? Well… it wasn’t o.o The Wii U actually had standard console sales. It “didn’t sell well” because of how well the Wii sold. The Wii sold tons, the Wii U didn’t. It sold about the same as any other console did. In turn, it was deemed a “failure”. Why did it fail? It went back to the old formula. It decided to drop motion controls and go to a standardized controller, and that meant pushing half of the Wii fanbase out.

That said… I really question what games you like when you say that only Zelda and Mario Kart 8 were good. Like… you didn’t like Wind Waker HD? Twilight Princess HD? You didn’t like Super Mario Maker? Super Mario 3D World? Hyrule Warriors? Super Smash Bros? Shovel Knight? Star Fox Zero?

Those are just the start of the games that I bought for the Wii U. I enjoyed all of them. Okay, yes, WWHD and TPHD were re-releases of previous games, I’ll give you that, but they’re still fun. Star Fox Zero was tons of fun once you learned the controls. Hyrule Warriors? I mean, I STILL play that game almost daily a year later! I even bought the 3DS one! There are a ton of good games out for it. You just have to buckle down and actually give them a try.

The games on Wii U are as experimental as the console is. Nintendo won’t “stop making consoles and just make games” because Nintendo isn’t that kind of company. If they did go to just making games? The games would still be exactly the same. They’d be experimental and pushing the limits of the controls, the console, etc. I’m sorry, but the truth of the matter is, Nintendo is doing what every other company is afraid to do… experiment and try something new…

I mean really… how many Call of Duty games are out now that are the same game? I really just don’t understand how the series sells… Oh, I do know… people are scared to experiment, so they keep playing the same games over and over again because they’re afraid that if they try something new, a new style of game, a new control scheme, they’ll hate it. Well, you’ll never know until you try. It’s like eating food. How do you know if you like peanut butter until you try? How do you know if you like ketchup on a burger until you try? You have to live, to experiment, to do something bold and new, and Nintendo will never stop doing that.